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This Florist-Bandit Is The Hero We Need Right Now Summary

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Picture this: A person is walking down the street in New York City. As he or she reaches the corner of the sidewalk, a blatant flash of color catches his or her eye. The article "This Florist-Bandit is the Hero We Need Right Now" by Christina Perez explains just what this eye-catching object is. In a trashcan on the side of the curb explodes a brilliant arrangement of flowers, tulips and forsythia billowing out the can fantastically. Another day, hordes of tourists and New Yorkers alike are surprisingly swarming a famous sculpture in Central Park. This familiar piece of artwork is now draped in a veil of delicate, white flowers. Initially, people were coining name "The Florist-Bandit" for the perpetrator of these flash floral arrangements, …show more content…

The writer keeps the reader hooked by using vivid imagery within the writing set up with eye-catching pictures of the beautiful flower arrangements aside it. The sources of the article are simple, as they are interviews of the florist Lewis Miller alongside references to pictures taken by people witnessing these Flower Flashes. The only agenda that could be feasibly present within the article is the idea to spread happiness and beauty, which is something that many articles that one may find on the internet would usually not do. Due to the kindness of what Miller is doing, the author heavily appreciates the aesthetic beauty of it, but those who may be against these Flower Flashes may say that it causes obstruction to normal commutes or that it causes a mess. In contrast to this potential argument, Miller and his team makes an effort to recycle all the flowers used in these arrangements as to not be a nuisance to the already raucous New York City. The article is overall well-rounded, but it doesn 't elaborate upon all the Flower Flashes shown in pictures in the article, which may leave the reader wanting to know

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